A Newcastle University researcher is to use advanced brain-imaging to search for a cure for tinnitus after the Northumberland Freemasons donated £75,000 to set up a studentship with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID).
Kate Yukhnovich - who has a neuroscience PhD - will use the funding to investigate how the brain activity of people with and without tinnitus changes when listening to a series of sounds.
She hopes to be able to develop a test to tell whether someone has tinnitus.
